There's a short story in the November 2004 issue of Air&Space Smithsonian, about a group building an electrically powered manned airplane. Eventually it will use fuel cells, but for initial test flights they are using batteries recycled from some Prius's that ended up in junkyards.
A new use for Prius batteries...
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